My guess is Webb was upset that the guy made Webb look bad. Webb seems to be a hothead (witness his absurd reaction to the President trying to make conversation with him). He blew up at a debate as well.
A compassionate boss would have done everything he could to get the guy out of jail, but Webb just wanted to make sure everybody knew it wasn't his fault.
Time to write a book and follow the lead of Goldberg, Morris, et. al.
Frankly -- given the "Senator's" writing style and apparent mental instability -- I'm surprised he qualified to carry a weapon on his person...
Wouldn't it be neat - if someone challenged the blow hard to a damned duel!
I'd pay money to watch...
Semper Fi
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Have seen this stated several times, but have never seen any proof. Has anyone seen the permit???
Cue Aerosmith's 'Janies got a Gun'
Jimmy's got a gun
the Congress' come undone...
More seriously, his actions give support to the enemies of the Second Amendment. The common argument against allowing citizens to own guns is that people can't be trusted to handle them properly and to behave responsibly.
Ditto and double ditto.
Maybe my head has been in the sand, but that is the first time I've heard the gun was loaded. Not smart.
I'm a gun owner. Safety is job #1.
Webb is a scum, a loose screw. I think that some of the military in Virginia voted for him and put him over the top because they thought he was one of them. Big mistake. He's about as reliable as Captain Queeg.
Jimmy's got a gun
Jimmy's lost a gun
Jimmy needs a gun
Jimmy's got a gun
Webb is creep and a liar, in other words, a good democrat.
More seriously, his actions give support to the enemies of the Second Amendment. The common argument against allowing citizens to own guns is that people can't be trusted to handle them properly and to behave responsibly. James Webb is a senator, a trained Marine and a long-time NRA member. If anybody could follow the rules of gun ownership, it would be Webb.
And yet Webb left his loaded gun in a bag in a car. He allowed a person without a permit to gain access to his weapon. Because Webb didn't tell Thompson, Thompson didn't know he had a gun in the bag, which means he didn't safeguard it properly. This is exactly the shoddy mistreatment and mishandling of a weapon that gun opponents point to when they try to take our guns away.
But maybe Webb was trying to give gun owners a bad name. Isn't that how the Dems work? They take someone who's got "credibility" on an issue, and use them to push the issue. Afterall, Murtha's a former Marine and war hero, so why not use him to attack Bush's Iraq policy? And why not use Webb to attack gun rights?
With the exception of gangbangers, narcotics dealers, professional assassins, pimps, bank robbers, carjackers, made Mafioso and their associates, and terrorists.
It's not news that webb is a sick, arrogant, creep.
Bullsh!t. What good is a gun if it isn't loaded?
My carry is always loaded (duh). And both of our HD weapons are always loaded. Otherwise, they're just paperweights.
Remember, folks, this is the same man that drove around Watts in the late '60s (as an active duty serviceman, no less) pointing guns at Black people for kicks. Think he'd be in DC without his firearms given his pathological racism and hatred towards people of color (and towards Jews, Republicans, the mentally balanced, et al)... ?
I sense a Paul Shanklin parody comming soon.(aerosmith's jaimie's got a gun)
"Webb has got a gun...
Webb has got a gun...
let his aid rot in jail
cause he is too hot poop to fail...."
Ladies and gentlemen: it was PROBABLY unloaded. The Mighty Media Monolith thinks a semiauto is loaded by just slipping the mag into place. I'll bet this gun had no round in the chamber, and was thus unloaded. If when you drop the hammer, it doesn't fire...it is unloaded.